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Students
get course
credit for
community
service
TAYLOR WOLF

Social Media Editor
Baylor’s
Philanthropy
and Public Service Program,
housed by the Honors College,
offers a unique opportunity
to students – receiving course
credit that can substitute for a
lifetime fitness credit.
While it’s a required course
for a Bachelor of Social Work
degree, students working
toward a Bachelor of Science,
fine art or art degree may
substitute service for a lifetime
fitness credit. The course is
open as an elective to all other
students.
According to the current
course catalog, “In addition to
one weekly classroom hour,
a minimum of two hours per
week of community service
is required. May be repeated a
maximum of four times with a
different topic each time.”
The PPS 1100 course,
Citizenship and Community
Service, offers 12 sections that
cover 11 topics of community
service. The variety of topics
range from Waco poverty to
community gardening to law
and public service.
Dr. Andrew Hogue, director
of Baylor’s philanthropy and
public service program and
senior lecturer in the Honors
College, said the variety of
instructors and various topics
of the 1100 sections stay
consistent for the most part

even though one may get
removed on occasion due to
instructor availability.
“Most of our instructors
of those courses are actually
leaders of local nonprofits,”
Hogue said. “Because they
are embedded in nonprofits
here in the community, they’re
able to provide students with
meaningful opportunities for
service.”
Most sections consist of
one lecture hour a week in
the classroom and two hours
of volunteer service outside
the classroom – sometimes
independent, and other times
group coordinated.
“It’s not just service for the
sake of service,” Hogue said.
“It’s connected very directly to
the learning in the classroom.
What’s learned in the
classroom, hopefully, creates
more informed service. What
happens in service, hopefully,
informs the conversations in
the classroom.”
For
example,
when
learning in the classroom
about contributing factors
to homelessness, a more
informed student could better
serve the local homeless
population when volunteering
in
the
community
by
understanding the causes.

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Kennedy Dendy | Broadcas Reporter

CARING COVE In its third year of providing help to homeless youth, The Cove provides a nurturing center with access to cell
phone chargers, food, laundry and a shower. Mentorship is also offered as an accountability program for teens.

The Cove gives help
to homeless youth
KENNEDY DENDY
Broadcast Reporter
Across the United States, there
are more than 1.6 million youth who
experience homelessness each year. The
Cove is in its third year of providing
services for homeless youth in Waco.
Kelly Atkinson is an alumna of the
Diana R. Garland School of Social
Work and taught at Baylor for 10 years.
She currently serves as the executive
director at The Cove.
“The Cove is a safe place for young
people experiencing homelessness to
thrive,” Atkinson said. “We have what
is called our Nurturing Center. It’s
a safe place to go where you might
charge your cell phone, get a hot meal,
access showers and laundry. Those are
basic needs that students experiencing
homelessness have.”
Not every student at The Cove
identifies with the standard definition
of “homeless.” Atkinson said that
the Mckinney-Vento Act is a law that
assists education institutions in giving
students the appropriate support if they
are living in unsafe conditions.

Lula Jane’s named in top
100 eateries in the nation

Shae Koharski | Multimedia Journalist

TOP 100 Midland senior Anna Grace Stallings takes a break from studying on campus to go to Lula Jane’s. The
bakery was recently awarded No. 71 on Yelp’s “Top 100 Places to Eat in the U.S. 2019.”

Vol.118 No. 42

“It’s not necessarily that our students
are living on the streets or don’t have a
single place to go,” Atkinson said. “It
might be bouncing from one family
member’s house to another.”
Guenevere J.* is a high school
senior and said she dreams of opening
up a bakery. She currently works two
jobs and said she has had a positive
experience at The Cove.
“The Cove is amazing,” Guenevere
said. “They welcome you with open
arms and treat you like they are a part
of their family. They don’t treat you any
different than anyone else. They treat
you like they’re your family.”
Mentorship is very important among
everyone at The Cove. One program
was created to provide accountability
for the teens who come to the center.
“They’re pretty much your biggest
fans and your supporters,” Guenevere
said. “They push you to the extreme to
do what you can to achieve your goals.
They are really supportive and fun, and
it’s pretty much like another family you
have.”
The Cove and Baylor partner

directly to give students the opportunity
to experience the center and learn more
about the students that the center serves.
“We would not exist apart from
Baylor,” Atkinson said. “We have
Baylor students who volunteer in the
evenings with our Cove scholars. There
are so many different ways that different
departments, faculty, staff and students
at Baylor have supported our work.”
The Cove strives for empowerment
and provides every student with a sense
of community.
“We want every single student
to thrive. That could include dealing
with difficulties from their past, but it
could also include looking ahead at
the capacities that they have to have a
bright future.
The Cove serves students from 4 to
8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and
will be open for the summer as well.
For more information or for volunteer
inquiries, head to The Cove website.
* Guenevere J. agreed to appear on
camera for Lariat TV News, but her last
name was left out of the story and video
for safety reasons.

BRIDGET SJOBERG

“I use a lot of chemistry when I
bake — when I amend a recipe I think
about pH levels and other factors that
truly involve chemistry, which is a huge
component. I’ve read a lot, practiced a
lot and made lots of mistakes, which
are great. I believe in making mistakes,
lots of them,” Grayson said. “When we
get comments from customers about
something they felt wasn’t quite right,
we’ll go back to the drawing board,
even if we’ve been serving it for six
years, and think about how we can do
things better. We’re a service industry,
so we listen and are responsive and we
care. I read and answer every review
myself because I want to know what
people think so we can be better than
we are. Good is never good enough —
you should always strive to be excellent
and excellent is hard to reach.”
All ingredients and recipes made
at Lula Jane’s are completely from
scratch, which Grayson said makes
Lula Jane’s the first garden to table and
farm to table restaurant in McLennan
County. Grayson is also working on
opening a grocery store in East Waco, a
project that is four years in the making,
to offer fresh food options to the
community.
“Everything we make here is fresh
and from scratch — we don’t cook any
frozen food, which is rare in Waco,”
Grayson said. “We’ve been consistent
about our approach to food with healthy

Staff Writer
Whether it be by eating their
chocolate chip cookies at “milk
and cookies night” at Line Camp or
stopping by on Saturday morning
before a football game, many Baylor
students have made it to local restaurant
Lula Jane’s at least once during their
four years.
Lula Jane’s opened up in East Waco
on Halloween 2012 and has quickly
grown to be a favorite spot in the
Baylor and Waco communities. It was
even listed as No. 71 on Yelp’s “Top
100 Places to Eat in the U.S. 2019,”
yet owner Nancy Grayson said that the
honor wasn’t something Lula Jane’s
was aware of until after the list came
out.
“We didn’t know the list existed
before or even after — we got a
Facebook notification from a friend
about it, which is how we found out.
Yelp never contacted us, so it’s not
something you actively work towards,”
Grayson said. “We saw it, thought it
was nice and went back to baking,
because that’s not why we do things.
We serve up excellence and whatever
falls our way is okay.”
Grayson, who has been baking since
she was a child, comes up with Lula
Jane’s breakfast and bakery recipes
herself and said that she constantly
strives to improve, even if that means
making mistakes along the way.

Don’t be afraid
to branch out
to new interests
BEN EVERETT
Sports Editor

Rewon Shimray | Cartoonist

Shop off-line
Addictive online shopping leads to waste
For those of us who shop online, Christmas comes more than
once a year. Instead of shuffling down the chimney, Santa knocks
on our doors, dressed in a FedEx delivery uniform. Searching
for that feeling of euphoria that comes from receiving a gift —
even one you got yourself — in a brown cardboard box can be an
addictive, wasteful and expensive habit.
Researchers from Beijing Normal University published a study
in 2017 that linked the addictive behavior of online shopping to
internet addiction and compulsive buying. That is to say, online
shopping addiction has connections to not one but two other
kinds of compulsive behaviors that aim to alleviate stress or
negative emotions. Their research, however, found that online
shopping addiction is most closely related to compulsive buying.
A 2018 NPR/Marist poll found that Amazon is the most
popular source of online shopping among Americans. In fact,
more than half of Americans say they’ve bought something on
Amazon, and more than 40 percent say they buy something on
Amazon once a month or more.
Amazon’s popularity among American shoppers likely stems
from its simple two-day shipping, storing of credit card and
shipping information, ability to browse for hours on end to find
the best product for the best deal, and vast inventory of products
from a wide variety of retailers. After all, there is little Americans
value more than convenience.
However, even the convenience aspect of online shopping
is brought into question when you consider the danger of not
seeing an item in person until it arrives at your doorstep. This
is particularly true with clothes and shoes. Though customer
reviews online aim to give shoppers an accurate idea of the fit of
the product, there’s always room for error. The Atlantic reported
that nine out of 10 online shoppers simply don’t return items they
don’t plan to use because it’s not worth the hassle. This is largely
due to how cheap online goods are in the first place.
At the same time, online shopping causes an unprecedented
amount of waste. While goods stocked in a traditional store are
usually packaged in bulk, items purchased online are packaged

individually to be sent directly to the shopper. This leads to waste
from packaging. All those cardboard boxes that arrive at your
door with your latest Amazon purchases have to go somewhere
once the item you bought is hanging neatly in your closet. They
usually end up in the landfill.
Further waste is caused by having an excess of goods. When
we have access to endless streams of cheap clothing, we are
more likely to find older items in our closet obsolete. While
most people don’t throw away unwanted purchases, many of
them try to donate unwanted goods like clothes, dishware and
shoes. Although this act is done with good intentions, most of
the clothes donated (at least 70 percent at Goodwill, the company
told Newsweek) don’t get sold. Meaning most of them end up in
the landfill though the inevitable was delayed in the process.
As fun and stress-free as online shopping is, this habit-forming
practice can have disastrous results on the environment — and
your wallet. A simple fix is simply to start shopping in brick and
mortar stores as often as you can. It might be a bit more expensive
and take a little extra time out of your day, but the process may
end up saving you money in the long run. The act of driving to a
store, shopping around and waiting in line gives you more time to
think critically about your purchase and whether it’s worth your
time and money. Since online shopping addiction by its very
nature is compulsive, the easiest way to combat that impulse is to
take time to think critically about your purchasing choices.
You can also try sustainable shopping, buying goods that were
produced ethically or with recycled materials. Some shoppers
fight shopping addictions with minimalism or capsule wardrobes,
which utilize a few key fashion items that can be paired in a
variety of ways while keeping your closet small. More extreme
measures include going shopping-free for a year in which you
only buy things you absolutely need like food or replacements for
broken possessions. Online shopping can be fun and convenient,
but that all comes at a cost. It’s an addiction we can each fight in
the way that works best for us, our priorities and our budgets.

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While I don’t want
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According to Ken Bain’s “What the Best College
Students Do,” there are pros and cons to being heavily
involved in many areas of life. Bain writes that a range
of experiences can help students become more prepared
for an array of challenges in the future. Moreover, being
involved shows potential employers that a student has
time management and other professional skills.
College students can easily diversify their time and
skill sets through the resources available at universities.
I’ve been able to learn a wide array of material thanks to
my major. Business Fellows has allowed me to take more
electives, and there are other majors and programs that
provide similar opportunities. Although my main studies
have centered around business, I’ve taken classes like
Great Texts, statistics, philanthropy and sportswriting that
have broadened my horizon.
Aside from classes, there are many ways to get plugged
in to other activities. One of the ways I did so was by
applying to work for The Lariat. While I don’t want to have
a career in journalism, my job has allowed me to stay close
to the sports world and given me experience working a
real job while refining my writing skills.
For others, this might look like rushing a fraternity
or sorority, participating in a club or volunteering for a
service organization. The more you get involved, the
more you learn different perspectives and the more wellrounded you become.
Bain writes that a major con of participating in a lot
of different things is being spread too thin. This is easily
avoidable if you know your limits.
People like Lavar Ball would tell you to stay in your
lane. But I say don’t stay in your lane. Learn something
new. Try something different. You’ll be better for it.
Ben is a Baylor Business Fellows and accounting double
major from Monroe, La.

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Madison Day

Well-roundedness is a seemingly growing
phenomenon. It used to be the norm to stick to one job
and field of interest for an entire career. Now our society
encourages people to pursue a variety of avenues.
As of 2017, 42 percent of millennials expect to change
jobs every one to three years, according to Jobvite. People
don’t want to stay in one place anymore.
Professional athletes are a great example of this
renaissance man trend. Superstar basketball players
like LeBron James and Kevin Durant don’t just play
basketball. Both players have a clothing and shoe line and
a media/entertainment company that
produces a TV show. Additionally,
Durant and LeBron each have
expressed a desire to own an NBA
team one day.
Some NBA players, like the
Warriors’ Andre Iguodala, are getting
involved in venture capital projects
in Silicon Valley. Sacramento Kings
rookie Marvin Bagley III moonlights
as a rapper.
I’ve always had a wide array of interests. My major
and career goals reflect that. I’m majoring in finance and
accounting and minoring in news-editorial, but I want to
work in basketball operations.
From a young age, my parents encouraged me to try
different activities and cultivate a variety of interests. It’s
never something that I consciously made a point to stick
to, but looking back, I realize now how being a wellrounded person has shaped who I am.

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Claire Boston | Multimedia Journalist

VAPING There has been an increase in vaping among Baylor students in the last year.

Juul takes campus by storm
MADALYN WATSON
Staff Writer
Young adults in the United
States,
including
Baylor
students, are addicted to
nicotine without even lighting
a cigarette. Students are getting
addicted
to
e-cigarettes,
especially Juuls. At Baylor,
the usage of e-cigarettes has
doubled.
The U.S. Surgeon General
Jerome Adams declared vaping
an epidemic among young
adults on Dec. 18 after he
issued an advisory about the
dangers of electronic cigarette
use.
More than 3.6 million
U.S. youth used electronic
cigarettes in 2018, according
to the advisory, and Baylor
students are not excluded from
this epidemic.
Lilly Ettinger, the assistant
director of wellness for
the Beauchamp Addiction
Recovery Center (BARC),
said that they began gathering
information on the number
students who use e-cigarettes
in the fall of 2015.
“Just like the national rate,
the usage for the last two years
has doubled from the year
before. So we’ve had these two
successive years of doubling,”
Ettinger said.
About 20 percent of high
school students have vaped
in the past month, according
to a study conducted between
2015 and 2018 by the National
Institute of Drug Abuse.
“Our rate isn’t that high,
but it is rapidly growing,”
Ettinger said.
Baylor is a tobacco-free,
smoke-free campus. That
means that the use of all
tobacco products as well as
e-cigarettes and e-hookahs,
even those that do not contain
nicotine or tobacco, is not
allowed on Baylor property.
Ettinger said Baylor’s strict
ban on nicotine from campus
still hasn’t stopped the rising
e-cigarette use.
Juul Labs released a
clinical study on Feb. 23 that
declared using Juul products

just as effective as abstaining
from nicotine when quitting
smoking cigarettes.
The Juul is currently the
most popular e-cigarette. The
vape resembles a USB flash
drive and takes flavored pods
that contain 0.7 mL with five
percent nicotine by weight. A
single Juul pod has the same
amount of nicotine as a pack
of combustible cigarettes,
“It’s a lot easier to oversmoke, to create those mild
nicotine overdose symptoms
and the more severe ones,”
Ettinger said.
Signs of nicotine poisoning
include
nausea,
anxiety,
headaches, dehydration and
vomiting.
“If you break open like an
e-cig cartridge, that nicotine
can be absorbed through your
hands and can very quickly
become poisonous,” Ettinger
said.
Depending on the severity,
nicotine poisoning can require
treatment at the hospital.
“There is some data
showing that e-cigs are a
good step-down method for
older adults who are trying to
quit cigarettes. But for young
adults, it’s a step up, which is a
problem,” Ettinger said.
Alyssa Petty, the wellness
education
and
outreach
coordinator
for
Baylor’s
Wellness program, is a trained
tobacco specialist as well as
a certified health education
specialist.
“Although people keep
saying it’s an aid to help you
quit, if something happens
and you can no longer get a
hold of that e-cigarette, you’re
just going to go back to the
traditional [cigarette],” Petty
said.
Petty said although people
say vaping is healthier than
smoking, that does not mean
it is healthy.
“I think the best analogy
I‘ve got for it is: You can jump
off of a 10-story building or
you can jump off a 20-story
building. The end result is the
same,” Petty said.
Petty also said the

e-cigarettes, like Juuls, are
attracting people who have
never smoked before because
of the flavors.
“Once we saw that people
were enjoying the e-cigarettes
more than the combustible or
traditional cigarettes, people
who never smoked a day
in their life were trying the
e-cigarettes,” Petty said.
Juul stopped selling sweet
flavors like mango in stores
because of its prominence in
youth culture, but they still
offer flavors like mint, creme
brulee and menthol.
“That was sweet, that they
removed the mango, but that
was not enough,” Petty said.
Petty
said
cigarette
companies used to make
flavored cigarettes, but they
were banned in because they
found out the flavors were
appealing to children. The only
flavored cigarettes still sold in
the United States are menthol
and cloves.
“We see that it’s a trend. It’s
an epidemic for young people
as the Surgeon General stated
a couple months ago,” Petty
said.
Petty said students starting
their freshman year at Baylor
have already been exposed
to vaping and e-cigarettes
throughout middle and high
school.
For those who are wanting
to quit smoking or vaping or
both, there are many resources
offered at Baylor.
The on-campus pharmacy
located in the McLane
Student Life Center offers
Baylor approved nicotine
replacement therapy such as
gum and patches.
“The BARC exists to serve
students at Baylor who are in
recovery or seeking recovery
from any form of addiction
disorder that includes alcohol
and other substances including
nicotine,” Ettinger said.
The BARC is located
on the bottom floor of Teal
Residential College, near the
corner of Third Street and
Bagby Avenue.

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Veggie students find community
EMMA WHITAKER
Reporter
College students can be
quite unhealthy, and it can
be a struggle to find healthy
community. Through late
night creamer-filled coffee
runs, to In-N-Out burgers, to
even floats at Dr Pepper hour,
non-vegan friendly food often
interlocks with Baylor’s social
community. Being a vegan can
feel isolating, even outcasting.
Lubbock junior Alexa
Nelson, who had a vegetarian
lifestyle going into her
freshman year, said she did
not always feel supported by
the Baylor community for her
choices.
“I got a lot of push back
from people,” Nelson said.
“They would say, ‘Oh, why?’ or
would try to argue with me on
whether or not being a vegan
or vegetarian was the right
thing to do, not validating my
reasons, which were centered
around the health and
treatment of animals.”
The Baylor Vegetarian
Club, or the “Veggie Club”
entered into college students’
pain and need for friendship
and belonging. The Veggie
Club aims to develop a
community for the plant and
animal lovers, who do not
want to eat them because they

love them, on campus. Their
last meeting was held at Luna
Juice Bar, where they discussed
their vision for the new year,
centered
on
community
and connectedness. Dallas
sophomore Shannon Smith,
the social outreach chair,
says the club serves as a
way for people to feel know,
and supported, even when
their lifestyle proves to be
challenging.
“I’ve always loved the
environment, as I am a
environmental studies major.
I wanted to be a vegan for the
environment, and then just
after I learned about all the
nastiness that goes into our
bodies. We’re so desensitized
to it, so disconnected from
the animal treatment and
environmental
factors,”
Smith said, “I want to make a
change. Even though I’m just
one person, I want to make a
change.”
Smith said becoming a
vegan does not mean changing
your identity. She said she
doesn’t bring it into every
conversation, nor does she
wear vegan tees every day. She
said she simply loves nature
and believes in her purpose.
The vegan community
has deep ties and rituals of
their own, sometimes ranging
from watching vegan YouTube

vloggers to going on road trips
to Earth Day celebrations
according to Smith. A few
other members of the Veggie
Club chimed in on what
veganism and vegetarianism
means to them personally.
Missouri City, Mo. junior
Phillip Lee said that he is
vegetarian because of the
health and environmental
benefits.
“For me it means I
personally live healthier than I
did before and no longer have
to feel guilty about the source
of my food,” Lee said.
Phillip said that he cares
too much about his moral
values to return to a different
diet.
“I couldn’t justify eating
selfishly at the cost of not only
the planet, but also future
generations. I don’t miss my
old lifestyle, and I don’t see
how I could morally ever go
back,” Houston senior Grace
Vollmers said.
Smith said that those food
groups do not even seem like
true food groups anymore in
her eyes. They have become
unappetizing. It may be a long
road to completely quit dairy
and meat, but Smith says the
wait is worth it. She said it is
worth the health, freedom, and
energy people can find.

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Feb. 28 - Mar. 4

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Consuming Alcohol
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SERVICE CREDIT Student and adult volunteers cook breakfast
for 125 homeless people on Feb. 15 at the Meyer Center.

“We hope these kinds
of experiences are shaping
students for the long haul,”
Hogue said. “That this is
helping people begin to
understand what it looks like
to be part of a community, to
be engaged in the life of the
community, to try and make
sure it flourishes.”
In some cases, Hogue said
students will decide to enter
the service field or continue
working with an organization
after completing the course –
increasing their engagement
with the community and the
issues.
Dallas
junior
Riley
Howard, who is taking the
careers in law section of the
PPS 1100 course, was looking
at her lifetime fitness course
credit options when she found
the philanthropy and public
service course. As a pre-law
student, the course offers a
unique opportunity to get
involved in other areas and
with students outside her area
of study.
“It’s made me think about
areas of law that I might
not have explored before,”
Howard said. “It’s just cool
because it’s not degree specific
— for example, in my class,
there’s a pre-med student and
a social work student. The mix
just brings in a lot of different
perspectives.”
Hogue said the program
numbers
remain
steady
from semester to semester
in the effort to be able to
meaningfully place students

in service opportunities within
the community and not overrun service organizations with
students.
“It is a disservice to
organizations if we are flooding
them
with
volunteers,”
Hogue said. “They couldn’t
accommodate 3,000 students.
So, we have about 300 or
so [students] who take these
classes every semester, and
that’s a good number.”
While a consistently small
program in terms of size,
it’s been a part of Baylor for
almost 30 years.
“Baylor was actually on
the cutting edge of a national
movement to embed service
learning into the curriculum,
and so in 1991 the program
began,” Hogue said. “It
was then called the Civic
Education and Community
Service Program — that was
when the 1100 course came
on the books, and it’s been
operating continuously ever
since.”
On the program’s webpage,
students can find philanthropy
and public service education
resources such as lists of
community partnerships and
the civic learning courses.
While current students can
earn lifetime fitness credit for
taking the PPS 1100 course,
Hogue said that may not be the
case for entering students as
the core curriculum changes.
This new option could
potentially change Bachelor
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options that are also delicious
and fill you up. Showing
people that eating that way
can be done and make people
happy has been good. The
grocery store we’re doing up
the street is an extension of
this in looking at fresh food
and making it available to the
neighborhood, so they can
continue eating in a way that
serves them well. We’re also
training people in East Waco
to garden so we can buy their
fresh foods from them. It’s a
self-sustaining approach to
community and good food.”
Grayson said that a
primary mission of Lula Jane’s
is to feed people, particularly
the people of East Waco,
and all profits made from the
restaurant are invested back
into the local community.
She has also opened a public
charter school in East Waco,
and with her husband, she has
worked to build and develop
homes in the area.
“My goal was to help
foster
community
and
economic development for
this neighborhood. I’ve been
in the neighborhood since
1998 with the opening of the
school,” Grayson said. “Since
the opening of the school to
today, I take no money home.
I’ve worked 70 hours a week
for 20 years, and I take no
money home because for us
it’s about fostering community
in a neighborhood that we
think is fantastic. We love
Waco which is why we give
back — Waco has been good
to us, so we need to be good
to Waco.”
Ida Jamshidi, a frequent
visitor of Lula Jane’s,
appreciates the work that
Grayson has done to give
back to the community and
encourages growth in the local
neighborhood.
“I know that revitalizing
East Waco was a part of Nancy
Grayson’s vision when she

opened Lula Jane’s more than
six years ago,” Jamshidi said.
“She’s been intentional about
welcoming everyone who
walks through the doors of the
bakery and actively searches
for opportunities to give back
to the community. I truly
believe that this philosophy
has set the tone for other
businesses who have been
drawn to the area.”
One of Jamshidi’s favorite
aspects about Lula Jane’s is
the community aspect the
restaurant encourages through
friendly staff and a welcoming
atmosphere.
“Lula Jane’s is all about
bringing people together
around great food,” Jamshidi
said. “Everyone is valued
there regardless of your
background. You could be a
first-time visitor from out-ofstate or someone like me who
comes in several times a week
– the staff will always make
you feel like you’re home.”
Grayson reflects this vision
of acceptance and community
through hiring dedicated staff
and making a conscious goal
to welcome all people that step
inside the restaurant.
“It’s important to us that
whoever works here plugs
into our community at Lula
Jane’s. Our environment and
welcoming approach is that
everyone who walks through
our doors has value, and they
need to know that to work
here,” Grayson said. “Our goal
is gather people together —
we don’t have a huge interior
space, so you often have to
sit with and get to know other
people. This strengthens the
sense of community within
Lula Jane’s and hopefully
within the greater community.
The people keep us happy to
be here — if we can add joy
to people’s days through food
or connections, we’ve done
our job.”

All-male pageant raises funds
for breast cancer research
MADALYN WATSON
Staff Writer
The sisters of Alpha
Kappa Delta Phi Sorority,
Inc. hosted its first Mr. Pink
Pageant to raise funds for
breast cancer research and
education on Friday.
However,
the
calculations for how much
money they raised during
the pageant will not be
completed until the end of
the school year.
Four male contestants
competed for the Mr. Pink
title, sash and crown in
the Paul L. Foster Success
Center at 7 p.m. that
evening.
After the three sections
of the pageant, only one
contestant, Houston junior
Marion DuBose, achieved
the title of Mr. Pink 2019
after playing a song on his
electric violin for the talent
portion of the pageant.
“I’ve heard about a male
pageant before, but I hadn’t
actually seen it in action, so
I thought that was kind of
interesting,” DuBose said.
DuBose heard about the
pageant through his friend,
one of the pageant chairs
and new member educator
for the sorority, Chicago
senior
Elizabeth
Keomanikhoth.
“We’ve
been
planning this since
last year, just kind of
throwing the logistics
together, and kind of
like what we wanted
to do, and ideas
we wanted to take
from other chapters,
and what spin we
wanted to take on it,”
Keomanikhoth said.
The
all-male
beauty pageant is
a tradition among
other chapters of the
sorority, but this is
Baylor’s
chapter’s
first year hosting the
pageant.
The
pageant
consists of three
portions: introduction,
talent portion and
Q&A portion.
“There’s
going
to be an introduction
where the contestants
basically
explain
a little bit about
themselves — where
they’re from, what
they’re majoring in

and aspirations in their life,”
Keomanikhoth said.
During the introduction,
the four contestants revealed
their personalities to the
judges by highlighting their
organizations, interests and
achievements.
The
other
three
contestants competing to be
the winner of the Mr. Pink
pageant were: San Fransisco
senior Charlie Pugeda,
Houston
junior
Mark
Lacanilao and Overland
Park, Kan. freshman Daniel
Dong.
“And then there’s a
talent portion where they
can showcase whatever
talent that they may deem
appropriate,” Keomanikhoth
said.
During the talent portion,
the contestants showed off
their personalities even
further through song, dance,
music and yo-yo tricks.
DuBose performed his
own rendition of the song
“Secrets” by OneRepublic
on his electric violin.
“I’ve been playing the
regular violin since the
seventh grade, so that’s
about eight years now,”
DuBose said.
However, DuBose taught
himself electric violin his

sophomore year of high
school
after
watching
someone play it on YouTube.
“I was interested in the
whole talent portion as well
as the presentation of going
down a like runway and
trying to show off to the
crowd,” DuBose said.
After the talent section,
the
contestants
picked
random questions out of
a basket that one of the
members of the sorority
passed around the stage.
“In the Q&A section,
there’s a breast cancer
awareness fact question,
and then there’s a random
pageant
question,”
Keomanikhoth said.
Plano
senior
Julia
Huang, a pageant chair and
the internal vice president
of the sorority, said that they
want to make it very clear
that the pageant is for breast
cancer awareness.
“We give them the
questions [ahead of time]
so that they can study the
breast cancer facts, so that
they’ll know what’s going
on and how impactful this is
on women and even men,”
Huang said.
Huang
said
that
she joined the sorority
because of her love of

philanthropy and to honor
her grandmother who passed
away from breast cancer.
“I wanted to join kind
of like a smaller, tight knit
community of girls, I could
really kind of share my
passion is like my love of
philanthropy for, so when I
came across Alpha Kappa
Delta Phi as a freshman, and
I talked to a lot of the girls,
they also have that same
passion,” Huang said.
All of the proceeds made
from the Mr. Pink pageant
will go to breast cancer
research and education.
After the the last
portion, there were a
few performances from
members of the sorority
while the judges made their
decisions.
Other than the award for
Mr. Pink, first and second
runner-up sashes and awards
were given to contestants
Pugeda and Lacanilao.
The People’s Choice
award, audience members
voted on their phones for,
that was given to Lacanilao.
The Mr. Community award,
which was given to whoever
sold the most advertisement
spaces in the pageant’s
pamphlet, was awarded to
Pugeda.

She announced that
we got third place. It was
a very surreal moment.”
Sydney Symes

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Kappa Chi Alpha makes history with Sing act ‘Home Sweet Home’
THOMAS MORAN
Arts and Life Editor
For the first time in the organization’s history, Kappa Chi
Alpha sorority’s All-University Sing Act qualified for Pigskin
Revue and earned third place among the 19 organizations that
competed.
The show, called “Home Sweet Home,” opened with a sequence
featuring candy canes and lollipops dancing and singing of their
happiness in Candyland. After the opening sequence, the licorice
entered the stage to overtake Candyland. After a confrontation
between the two groups, the licorice changed its tune and the
candy groups decided to live in harmony.
Baytown senior Abigail Gregorcyk performed as a lollipop in
the act and said that, beyond the dancing and singing, Sing drew
the group to a new level of closeness.
“It was honestly amazing,” Gregorcyk said. “Sing is just
one of those opportunities, especially with the bond
that KXA has with our foundation in Christ, to
get to know everbody better. You create stronger
friendships. It was really cool to create the
sisterhood that we stand by. I’m now
friends with people that I barely knew.”
Gregorcyk offered insight into
the way Kappa Chi Alpha faces the
challenges of Sing every year.
“We have a word that goes

with each Sing act,” Gregorcyk said. “Last year, the word was
‘contender.’ Because we only had about 60 girls last year, we knew
our chances for Pigskin were lower, but we just wanted to be
contenders in the show and have people know who we are and
just radiate the Lord. This year, we had 92 girls, so we were 92
strong and had the mindset of ‘competitor.”
Beyond this change of mindset, there was another quality that
Gregorcyk said she believes set the group apart this year. Unlike
the other sororities that competed in Sing, Kappa Chi Alpha is an
explicitly Christian service sorority.
“The whole point of the show was to radiate joy and not only
the joy of Sing, but the joy of the Lord” Gregorcyk said. “I think
our colors and our songs and our positivity helped us to radiate
that.”
After the final night of Sing, students from the various
participating organizations piled into Waco hall and the
Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation to
hear the results. Among the students was Allen senior
Sydney Symes, one of this year’s Kappa Chi Alpha
Sing chairs and lead singers. They first announced
the acts that qualified for Pigskin Revue, and with
only one slot left, she feared the group hadn’t
qualified.
“We had figured since there was only one
spot left, that there wasn’t a huge chance
that we were that last one,” Symes said.
“We had kind of started trying to bring our
hopes down.”
Despite their doubts, the announcer said
Kappa Chi Alpha had earned the final spot in
Pigskin Revue­— something Symes described
as surreal.
“It was zero to 60,” Symes said. “We
went from thinking that we
didn’t make Pigskin

at all, but when we got on stage, while we were wrapping
our brains around the fact that we got to go to Pigskin, she
announced that we got third place. It was a very surreal
moment.”
Kappa Chi Alpha had only qualified for
Pigskin Revue once previously when they
paired with Alpha Tau Omega in the 2005,
making this not only the first time the group
has placed, but also qualified as a single group.
Maxcey Blaylock, one of the faculty advisers
of Kappa Chi Alpha and alumna of
the group, said the group’s historical
win will provide
hope
to
other smaller
groups who
participate in
Sing.
“There
are kind of
traditional Sing
powerhouses that
always win and this is a little group
that a few years ago, you never would
have thought would have a shot to
make it to Pigskin. They worked
hard and can be that inspiration
and can show other small groups
that they can do it to. It is such
an encouragement.”
The group will perform
their
act
at
Pigskin
Revue during Baylor
Homecoming 2019.

March 15
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Dry Martina
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Kung Fu Hustle
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Love, Death & Robots
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Queer Eye: Season 3
Robozuna: Season 2
The Lives of Others
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FASHION Several controversies have arisen in the fashion community over the past year, including racial and suicide insensitivity.
In repsonse, pop singer and actress Zendaya teamed up with Tommy Hilfiger to create a diverse show for Paris Fashion Week.

LINDSEY REYNOLDS
Reporter
Fashion month concludes Tuesday in
Paris. Thousands of looks designed by the
most prestigious fashion minds across
the globe graced the runways in New
York, London, Milan and Paris. Some of
the looks appeased the industry’s elite,
while others highlighted social taboos
that left the masses with their jaws on the
floor.
Burberry retracted designs that
generated social outcry amid the industry
and the public. Among this season’s
designs, the label released a sweater
with a drawstring resembling a noose.
The sweater was interpreted as a sinister
reminder of past lynchings and present
suicide numbers.
Liz Kennedy, a runway model for
Burberry and other couture brands,
made a statement via Instagram about
her thoughts on the sweater.
“Suicide is not fashion,” Kennedy said.
“It is not glamorous nor edgy.”
Kennedy
expressed
her
disappointment
for
the
brand’s
negligence, and continued to describe
her experience during her fitting for the
London Fashion Week show. She said
while backstage, the crew hung up the
sweatshirt to fix the knot and laughed
about its resemblance to a noose.
Burberry released an official apology
days following.
“We are deeply sorry for the distress
caused by one of the products that
featured in our A/W (Autumn/Winter)
2019 runway collection Tempest. I called
Ms. Kennedy to apologize as soon as I

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became aware of this and we immediately
removed the product and all images that
featured it,” Marco Gobbetti, CEO of
Burberry, said in a statement to E! News.
“Though the design was inspired by the
marine theme that ran throughout the
collection, it was insensitive and we made
a mistake.”
This is not the first instance of brands
being called out for insensitive designs.
Gucci, Prada, Katy Perry, Zara and others
have had to retract products resembling
blackface and neo-Nazist themes from
their collections in recent years.
San Antonio junior Melanie Moon
is a fashion merchandising major and
expressed her thoughts on the recurring
issue of negligence in representing people
of color in the fashion industry.
“Diversity is really difficult for some
reason in fashion to get exactly right,”
Moon said. “We have seen that recently
with the black face by Gucci, the offensive
merchandise created by Burberry. We’ve
talked about the Gucci and Burberry
mishaps in class, and we really think it’s
purposeful. The designers don’t really
sound that apologetic, and if you’re
selling to a specific market, you need to
be educated.”
Although fashion month began
grimly, a collaborative collection by
American actress and singer Zendaya
Coleman and fashion powerhouse
Tommy Hilfiger made a statement
in Paris with their runway show that
featured models of many shapes and
sizes.
The
’70s
themed
collection
emphasized
black
and
women
empowerment, immediately following

Black History Month and entering
Women’s History Month.
“This whole night is about a tribute to
these women, and the new women that
are coming up, but also the women who
paved the way for all of us to be here,”
Coleman explained in an interview with
W Magazine. “I think it’s about celebrating
all they’ve done for our industry and our
community.”
The ‘Tommy x Zendaya’ collection
casted over 70 women of color, in an array
of shapes, sizes, ages and nationalities.
Grace Jones closed the show as a tribute to
the iconic black women of the ’70s.
When asked about the show, Moon
explained that Coleman’s casting was
an outstanding display of inclusion to a
market not usually represented during
fashion weeks. She said that variance of
both color and size is a rarity to European
couture and is only just becoming
prominent in the American fashion
market.
“Growing up, something I wanted to
see when I walked into a store was to be
represented. Now as more companies and
brands are starting to use men and women
of color in their advertising campaigns or
in runway campaigns, it’s allowing them
to tap into different markets that they
didn’t originally think of,” Moon said. “It
just shows everybody can be included and
everybody should be included, and that
you can tap into so many markets if you
do it tastefully, with good intentions and
with your consumer in mind. That’s what
Zendaya did.”
Live coverage of the shows and events
can be found on FashionWeekOnline.
com/live or on Vogue.com.

Wednesday, March 6
Meet & Catch Up | 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. | Art Forum
of Waco | Free | Participants and visitors
of the Hispanic Heritage Art Show and
Celebration in September are invited to the
venue to reconnect with each other.
Christian Writers Workshop | 6 - 7:30 p.m.
| First Baptist Woodway | The group meets
every week at 101 N. Ritchie road to share
their writing.
Open mic night at Commons Grounds | 8 10 p.m. | The local coffee shop will host its
weekly mic night with spots given on a firstcome, first-served basis.

Thursday, March 7
The Art of Celebrity and Brand Making: Pop
| 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. | Cultivate 7twelve | The
exhibit features local artists focused around
pop culture.
ReStore ReStart Fine Art Show | 6 p.m. |
Cultivate 7twelve | The show features art
from recycled products. There will be a silent
auction to benefit the community.

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BRING OUT THE BROOMS Baylor senior guard Chloe Jackson drives the ball against West Virginia on Monday in Morgantown,
W. Va. The Lady Bears defeated the Mountaineers 61-57 to complete the sweep of the Big 12 regular season for the fourth time in school
history. Baylor is 28-1 heading into the Big 12 Tournament.

Baylor sweeps Big 12 regular
season for fourth time in history
JESSIKA HARKAY
Sports Writer
No.
1-ranked
Baylor
women’s
basketball went undefeated in the Big 12
regular season for the second year in a
row and the fourth time in school history,
avoiding a near upset from the West
Virginia Mountaineers 61-57 on Monday
in Morgantown, W. Va.
With their 35th straight Big 12 road
win, the Lady Bears finished the Big
12 regular season 18-0. Baylor went
undefeated in conference play in 2012 and
2013 in addition to the past two years.
Only two other teams have gone
unbeaten in Big 12 play: Oklahoma in 2006
and Nebraska in 2010.
In the win over the Mountaineers, the
Lady Bears were led by junior forward
Lauren Cox with a double-double game,
notching 22 points (7-for-10 on field goals,
7-for-8 on free throws), and 10 rebounds.
The Mountaineers had three double-

digit scorers. Forward Naomi Davenport
led WVU with 17 points, 3-for-6 on
3-pointers, and 13 rebounds.
Both teams opened the game unable
to score. By mid-quarter Baylor was on
an 8-0 scoring streak, as the Mountaineers
were shooting at a 13 percent field goal rate
(1-for-8). By the end of the first quarter, all
11 of the Mountaineers’ points came from
Lady Bear mistakes, including nine points
from turnovers and two from foul shots.
Cox opened the second quarter with
a quick jumper within the first minute to
bring the score to 17-11. The two teams
continued to struggle offensively as the
fight for the stronger defense battled out.
Both teams continued to struggle with
turnovers as neither team gained a clear
advantage. With two minutes left in the
half, the game was within four points, but
Baylor began gaining offensive momentum
with four late points from freshman center
Queen Egbo. The lead grew 31-23 by the
break.

Coming out of the break, Mountaineer
sparks of offense began to develop,
outscoring the Lady Bears 8-7 by midquarter to bring the game to 38-31. Both
teams went into two-minute scoring
droughts until a jumper from senior center
Kalani Brown led the start of a 6-0 run. The
Mountaineers countered with a 7-0 run.
By the fourth, the Lady Bears still didn’t
have an edge and struggled on both sides
of the ball. Holding Baylor to a scoring
average of 15 points per quarter and a
31 second-half field goal percentage, the
Mountaineers were in the game 44-38.
WVU held the Lady Bears to a 1-for6 on field goals in the first five minutes of
the fourth, meanwhile converting 2-of5, to bring the matchup back to a fourpoint game. The end of the game became
a fouling battle and Baylor held on for the
61-57 win.
Baylor will compete in the Big
12 Tournament starting Saturday in
Oklahoma City.

Sports Editor
Baylor men’s basketball senior guard
Jake Lindsey announced on Monday that
he has played his last game in a Baylor
uniform.
Lindsey, who had been redshirting
this year due to complications from
offseason hip surgery, published a
story on Baylorbears.com on Monday
afternoon detailing his medical issues and
announcing his retirement. Lindsey said
playing for the Bears was a dream come
true.
“Getting to be on the Baylor men’s
basketball team is truly a childhood dream
that I’ve been blessed enough to live out
every day for the last four years,” Lindsey
said.
Lindsey wrote he had been dealing
with hip issues for the majority of his
college career, and offseason surgery after
last season complicated things. Following
the surgery, he experienced nerve pain in
his shoulder and was later diagnosed with
Parsonage-Turner syndrome. Lindsey said
the doctors told him recovery would not
be easy.

Baylor men’s basketball fell to No. 16-ranked Kansas
State 66-60 Saturday night in Manhattan, Kan. to fall
two games back of the Big 12 lead.
The Bears (19-10, 10-6) committed 19 turnovers
and shot 12-for-20 from the free throw line in the sixpoint loss.
Kansas State senior forward Dean Wade dominated
on the offensive end, scoring 20 points on 9-for-15
shooting.
Sophomore forward Mario Kegler led the way for
Baylor, notching 13 points on 6-for-10 shooting from
the field, but fouled out with five minutes left in the
game.
The Bears took an early 7-4 lead thanks to Kegler
making plays on offense and defense.
The lead would not last long as Kansas State
embarked on a 17-0 scoring run, suffocating the
Baylor offense and getting senior forward Dean Wade
the ball in the middle of the Bears’ zone.
After a seven-minute scoring drought, the Bears’
offense finally got Kegler to the rim and the Bears
converted on 3-pointers, cutting the lead to 24-18 with
five minutes to play in the first half.
Freshman guard Jared Butler drained a pull-up
3-pointer at the end of the first half as the Bears trailed
the Wildcats 32-30 at the break.
The Bears came out firing in the second half with
senior guards Makai Mason and King McClure leading
the way. The two combined for seven straight points to
put Baylor ahead 37-36 five minutes into the half.
K-State responded, as a 3-pointer from junior
forward Xavier Sneed put the Wildcats up 46-40 in
front of a raucous crowd.
The Bears stuck around late in the game. Junior
forward Freddie Gillespie cut the lead to seven with
under four minutes remaining.
Baylor made it a three-point game in the final
minute, but K-State iced the game at the free throw
line.
The Bears will return home to face Oklahoma State
at 8 p.m. Wednesday for senior night.

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ONCE A BEAR, ALWAYS A BEAR Baylor senior guard Jake Lindsey drives the ball
against K-State on Jan. 22, 2018, at the Ferrell Center. Lindsey announced his retirement
from basketball on Monday.

“I’ll never forget the way [the doctor]
looked at me when he told me he wasn’t
sure if I’d ever play high-level basketball
again,” Lindsey said. “There was no certain
answer. The nerves had to grow back, and
that could be months, or it could be years.
Even then, I’d have to rehab them and hope
that my shoulder stayed healthy.”
Lindsey played in 103 games
throughout his three-year career, starting

18 games while putting up career averages
of 3.8 points and 2.8 assists per game.
Lindsey helped the Bears to two NCAA
Tournament appearances and one NIT
appearance.
Lindsey, who graduated in 2018, will
move to Salt Lake City to attend law school
once his fiancee Tiger Maddox graduates
in May.

BIGGEST FAN Baylor junior pitcher Cody Bradford cheers on the Bears from the dugout on
Friday against Texas A&M in Houston. The Bears, riding an eight-game win streak, went 1-2 in
the Shriner’s Classic.

Don’t be distraught by
Bears’ ups and downs
DJ RAMIREZ
Sports Writer

SPORTS TAKE

Going into the college baseball season, I
had very few questions about how Baylor’s
baseball team would shape up this year.
What was the bullpen going to look like?
How tough was the playing field going to be?
What are the chances of
seeing the green and gold
in Omaha?
I’ve followed the
ups and downs that the
Bears have gone through
since the very first day
I stepped foot in Baylor
Ballpark. Watching them
play, I felt like an 11-yearold girl falling in love
with the game all over again.
I knew the bullpen would be young with
a few veterans there to provide leadership.
I knew all of last year’s starters were coming
back so the lineup would look pretty much the
same. I knew I would probably back out of my
study abroad trip to Italy this summer because
there was no way I was missing the NCAA
championship.
Now that the season has started, I have a
new set of questions, however.
One of the things that I love and hate
about baseball is that it can sometimes be as
unpredictable as Texas weather. No matter
how good or bad a team is, there are obstacles
that you just can’t count on facing. The game is
a lot like real life in that way.
No team is going to start out healthy.
That’s something head coach Steve Rodriguez
acknowledged when the season started. Some
of the guys started off a little banged up or
suffering from illness.
But no one planned on the team’s Gold
Glove-winning catcher breaking his wrist
so early in the season. Or on the 2018 Big
12 Pitcher of the Year being moved from the
Friday guy to the Sunday guy due to shoulder
soreness. Even the starting first baseman who
is also a backup behind the plate was out sick
to start off the year.
However, the reaction to the early
challenges they’ve faced shows Baylor
baseball’s true character and tenacity.
With junior backstop Shea Langeliers
sitting out a couple weeks, freshman catcher
Kyle Harper has done a great job filling in
and with junior pitcher Cody Bradford being
limited the bullpen has really shined.
The Bears started the season with eight
straight wins and confidence was building.

So when they suffered their first loss of the
year to Texas A&M last Friday on the opening
day of the Shriner’s College Classic, it was like
the “baseball gods” were saying, ‘Not so fast
Baylor.’
And then they lost to Rice University the
next day and I couldn’t help but feel slightly
disappointed.
Everyone knew facing A&M was going
to be difficult. Baylor’s first eight wins came
against two teams who currently sit at last
place in both their leagues. The Aggies were
coming off a 2018 postseason run themselves
with contribution from their current Friday
night pitcher John Doxakis, whom the Bears
didn’t fare too well against with 12 strikeouts
in their loss. They didn’t fare any better against
the Owls the next night, so going into Sunday,
everyone was hoping for a comeback.
Baylor delivered.
With two outs in the bottom of the ninth
against Texas State, senior center fielder
Richard Cunningham, who had started the
game with a homerun, doubled to bring up
sophomore short stop Nick Loftin. Loftin
singled to score Cunningham and tie the game
and then the Bears took the lead with an RBI
double off the bat of junior third baseman
Davis Wendzel.
I had made my way down from the press
box so that I wouldn’t be late to post-game
media and got a front row seat to what
Cunningham called a “dramatic” win. Baylor
returned to play defense in the bottom of the
ninth as the Bobcats went in search of a walkoff. Sophomore right fielder Davion Downey
stole a homerun with an epic jump against
the home bullpen and then senior closer Kyle
Hill struck out the next two batters to seal yet
another comeback for Baylor.
“You’re going to get beat and that happens,
but I think what happened is, today we
established and we decided, ‘You know what?
Two’s enough,’” Cunningham told me in postgame media. “You know we’re not going to go
through a long lull. We lose a couple games;
that happens. That happens to baseball teams
and we have to reestablish momentum and
now there’s no looking back.”
Overall, I feel like the Shriner’s Classic
not only showed Baylor that although they’re
going to face some tough challenges going
forward, the comeback is what matters. And I
learned that, with the privilege I have covering
this team, I have the opportunity to grow along
with them.

Courtesy of Baylor Athletics

FULL SPRINT Baylor freshman catcher Kyle Harper rounds the bases against Texas A&M on
Friday in Houston. The Bears fell to the Aggies 5-2 and lost to Rice 6-3 before defeating Texas
State 5-4 to close out the weekend.